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Private JOSEPH BEARD

Service Number: 11981
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 November 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. D. 171.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Sarah Ann Beard, of Storrs, Stannington, Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID HIS LIFE UPON THE ALTAR OF DUTY
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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